Naruto: My Progress in Konoha

Qingming pondered while engraving the sealing array.

After about half an hour, Qingming finally completed the engraving of all the curse mark formulas.

Putting away his brush and ink, Qingming took a deep breath, then raised his hand to form a seal, activating the 'Self-Karma Curse Binding Seal' on the ground.

No, perhaps it should now be called the 'Self-Karma Curse Binding Array'!

With the injection of a large amount of chakra, the curse mark formulas on the ground squirmed rapidly, eventually turning into nine jet-black chains, which wrapped around Shemu's limbs, neck, and the front, back, left, and right of his waist.

The unconscious Shemu involuntarily stood up, his whole person as if subjected to torture, suspended in mid-air by the chains shot from the ground and the surrounding walls.

Dense black curse marks appeared and disappeared on his body surface, completely integrating him with the surrounding sealing array.

"Hmm~"

A painful groan escaped from Shemu's mouth.

He slowly woke up.

Looking at the empty basement around him, his eyes were full of confusion.

Seeing Qingming in front of him, he immediately perked up and wanted to adopt a defensive posture.

But unfortunately, as soon as he made a move, the nine black chains wrapped around him glowed faintly, working together with the curse mark formulas hidden on his body surface to restrain him in place.

"This is…"

Shemu looked down at the things on his body, his face ugly, and said: "A sealing array?"

Although it was a question, his tone was quite certain.

Obviously, as the son of the former village chief of Takiyin Village, his knowledge was not weak, and he saw the key at a glance.

However, just seeing it was not of much use, he had to be able to unlock it.

But could he unlock it?

The answer, of course, was no.

He was not a peerless genius, and his knowledge of sealing techniques was limited to understanding.

In this case, it was wishful thinking to explore and unlock a completely unfamiliar and high-level sealing array on his own.

What's more, this technique had been brought to perfection by Qingming, and its arrangement could be described as flawless, and it could not be broken in a short time at all.

As for the Seven Tails in his body…

Qingming didn't need to worry about it helping.

Among the tailed beasts, only One Tail Shukaku and Eight Tails Gyuki had some understanding of human ninjutsu and sealing techniques.

The other tailed beasts, although powerful and possessing intelligence no less than humans, were still just 'reckless men'.

Therefore, Qingming didn't need to worry about Seven Tails helping to break the seal.

In other words, for a foreseeable long time to come, Shemu would not be able to get rid of the shackles of the 'Self-Karma Curse Binding Array'.

After confirming this, Qingming completely relaxed.

Then, he ignored Shemu's ugly face and turned around and left the basement.

Coming to the tunnel entrance, Qingming raised his hand and crossed it, forming the 'Ren' seal, and performed the 'Shadow Clone Technique'.

Bang~

With a cloud of chakra smoke dissipating, a figure appeared in the field.

Qingming nodded to the other party and said: "Next, you will be stationed here. If anything happens, contact me in time."

"Yeah."

The shadow clone inherited his taciturn personality. After hearing his instructions, he responded and turned to walk into the small room specially opened for him next to him.

That's right, from the beginning, Qingming didn't intend to leave Shemu here alone.

Admittedly, it was unlikely that the other party would break free from the shackles of the 'Self-Karma Curse Binding Array', but it was better to be safe than sorry.

Therefore, he planned to leave a shadow clone here from the beginning.

In addition, he also needed someone to regularly extract the accumulated tailed beast chakra from the other party's body.

If he did it himself, although it wouldn't take much effort, it would still be a bit troublesome.

But it's different with a shadow clone.

It can completely transmit the absorbed chakra to him by dissolving the 'Shadow Clone Technique'. Although there will still be some loss, it is completely acceptable.

In this way, he only needs to send shadow clones here regularly.

Now the only question is, how much chakra can the other party supply him with in a day?

Qingming got the answer to this question on the second night.

Two hundred thousand!

That's right, it was 200,000 points of chakra.

Compared to the tailed beast's own huge chakra, 200,000 points per day was not too much, or even very little.

But on this day, the chakra that his shadow clone extracted from Shemu's body and finally sent to his body was 200,000 points.

The reason for this was still the ghost of Seven Tails.

The other party seemed to have discovered his intention. Even if he took the initiative to tear a hole in the 'Four象 Seal', it did not output more chakra.

These 200,000 points were completely involuntarily leaked out.

As for tearing the opening of the seal a little bigger…

This is simply impossible!

If the other party is not stupid, it will not be fooled. It will only wait for him to tear the opening of the seal large enough, and then fight to the death.

Although he had the Kaleidoscope Sharingan, Qingming was not afraid of the other party doing this, and it might even allow him to obtain more chakra, but this matter was still risky after all.

Compared to risking gaining a little more chakra, he still hoped to easily harvest 200,000 points every day.

Moreover, 200,000 points of chakra was not a small amount, it was already close to one-fifth of the chakra he could currently recover every day.

With these chakras, he could completely speed up the growth of various skills.

Today, he has already allocated these 200,000 points of chakra.

Qingming did not use them on the 'Bagua Sealing' that urgently needed to be improved.

No other reason, he had already invested 306,000 points of chakra in this technique, and could obtain 2,040 points of proficiency every day.

This already required him to split out multiple shadow clones to practice at the same time.

If he continued to increase the investment, he would need to split out more shadow clones to practice.

In this way, even if he increased the recovery frequency of the shadow clones and updated their status in time, it would still greatly increase the chakra waste rate, which would be completely counterproductive.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Qingming gave up this option and instead allocated these chakras to other skills.

Finally, after some weighing, the allocation results were as follows:

First of all, 'Water Style·Great Waterfall Technique' increased the investment of 63,000 points, so that the chakra he invested in it every day changed from 87,000 points to 150,000 points, and the proficiency gained changed from 725 points to 1,250 points.

Secondly, 'Earth Style·Earth Flow River' increased the investment of 60,000 points.

In this way, the chakra used on it every day will reach 100,000 points, and the proficiency gained will also change from 400 points to 1,000 points.

Then there is 'Illusion·Darkness Technique'.

Qingming increased the investment in it by 50,000 points, doubling the chakra invested in it every day from 50,000 points to 100,000 points.

In this way, the proficiency it gained also doubled, from 415 points to 830 points.

Finally, the remaining 27,000 points of chakra, Qingming invested in 'Temple of Nirvana Technique'.

In this way, the chakra used on it every day changed from 50,000 points to 77,000 points, and the proficiency gained increased from 415 points to 640 points.

It can be said that with the investment of this extra 200,000 points of chakra, the improvement speed of his various skills can be accelerated a lot.

Next, he only needs to practice step by step and wait for the 'Bagua Sealing' to be completed in a month.

Various thoughts flashed through his mind, Qingming restrained his thoughts and stopped thinking too much. After finally confirming that there were no major problems in the front-line camp, he went into the depths of the island on his own.

It can be seen that there is a wooden house here, which he had just built not long ago.

Qingming walked into it, without saying a word, and fell asleep.